Varadkar to tackle Trump on migration

Leo Varadkar has pledged to raise the issues of trade, migration and LGBT rights when he meets President Trump in the Oval Office next week.

The taoiseach said he would tell the US president that “trade goes in both directions and free trade and free enterprise benefit both countries immeasurably”. He told the Dáil that he would also raise Muslim rights as part of his St Patrick’s Day trip to the US.

“We are two countries which have very strong links,” Mr Varadkar said. “They are cultural — they run in our blood; most of us have American family and many Americans have Irish family — and they are economic. They are extremely important and I want to maintain and strengthen them. They will outlast any president…

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